130 Mo. 332 | Mo. | 1895
It appears from the evidence in this case that in a proceeding in partition in the circuit court of St. Charles county between the heirs of Matthew N. Clay, deceased, there was set off to his daughter, Nancy J., certain lands in said county in the commissioners’ report made to said court on the twenty-fourth of September, 1872, as her share as one of the heirs at law of her said father; that afterward, in 1876,the said Nancy J. intermarried with the defendant James H. Pollard; that afterward, to wit, on the twenty-seventh day of July, 1878, the said James H. Pollard and his wife, the
That afterward, to wit, in August, 1887, the said Nancy J. died intestate without lineal descendants, and on the fifth day of March, 1888, letters of administration on her estate were granted to her sister, the plaintiff, Josephine McGregor, who as such on the seventeenth day of March, thereafter, instituted this suit charging in her petition “that the whole of the proceeds of the sale of said lands so belonging to the said Nancy J. Pollard in her own right as aforesaid was received by the said respondent James H. Pollard, and, without the written consent of the said Nancy J. Pollard, was by him converted and appropriated to his own use and benefit and never accounted for or paid to the said Nancy J. Pollai’d or anyone else.” That of the moneys so converted he used the sum of $1,500 in paying off certain mortgages or deeds of trust which were liens upon land owned by the defendant and described in the petition, and that he used the further sum of $1,000 in making improvements on said lands, and prayed for judgment for the amount of the proceeds of said lands so converted, and that the said sums of $1,500 and $1,000 be declared a lien and charge upon said lands of the defendant.
The case was tried as a proceeding in equity. The
As it appears from the record that this cause is within the jurisdiction of the St. Louis court of appeals, it will be transferred to that .court for determination.